Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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had just considered going to help Mikayla when

marks on her neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who was standing

fetched the first ald kill.

Kylie in sitting down and then walked

her

at her arm, it was as if he were dragging a lifeless

felt a bit

didn’t you come up here to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he

time, Mikayla heard his voice. Her eyes began to focus,

Jerome felt a

to be with Kylie after the

hoarse, and her

brows tightened further as

someone’s life over this?”

the first aid kit!”

trying

approached at that moment, carrying

Mikayla stand up, but she coldly pushed him away.

to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away without casting

to find out what had happened, but

Kylie let out a

Mikayla was the one responsible for the disturbance,

coming to a complete stop. “Shall we go to

pale face, Kylie shook her

fine? Another inch deeper, and it would have needed

person just now?

“She might have misunderstood me.”

just too kind. You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her. I think we should call the police and have

“Aunt Agatha, please go back for now. If there’s anything, we

could tell it wasn’t appropriate for her to remain.

need someone to look

left, Jerome asked Kylie, “What just happened? Why